ix, 365 pages 22 cm

Discusses films such as On the waterfront, East of Eden, Blackboard jungle, Room at the top, Look back in anger, The entertainer, Sons and lovers, Saturday night and Sunday morning, Hud, The earrings of Madame de ..., The golden coach, Smiles of a summer night, La grande illusion, Forbidden games, Shoeshine, Beggar's opera, The seven samurai, Breathless, The cousins, West Side story, L'Avventura, One, two, three, The mark, Kagi, The innocents, A view from the bridge, The day the earth caught fire, La Notte, Last year at Marienbad, La dolce vita, A taste of honey, Victim, Lolita, Shoot the piano player, Jules and Jim, Adventures of a young man, Fires on the plain, Billy Budd, Yojimbo, Devi, 8 1/2, and others

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Essays

Zeitgeist and poltergeist; or, are movies going to pieces? -- Fantasies of the art-house audience -- Glamour of delinquency: On the waterfront, East of Eden, Blackboard jungle ... -- Commitment and the straitjacket: Room at the top, Look back in anger, The entertainer, Sons and lovers, Saturday night and Saturday morning ... -- Hud, deep in the divided heart of Hollywood -- Movies remembered with pleasure. Earrings of Madame de ... (1953) -- Golden coach (1953) -- Smiles of a summer night (1955) -- La grande illusion (1937) -- Forbidden games (1952) -- Shoeshine (1947) -- Beggar's opera (1953) -- Seven samurai (1954)

Breathless, and the Daisy Miller doll -- Cousins -- Canned Americana -- West Side story -- L'Avventura -- One, two, three -- Mark -- Kagi -- Innocents -- View from the bridge, and a note on The children's hour -- Day the earth caught fire -- Come-dressed-as-the-sick-soul-of-Europe parties: La Notte, Last year at Marienbad, La dolce vita -- Taste of honey -- Victim -- Lolita -- Shoot the piano player -- Jules and Jim -- Hemingway's Adventures of a young man -- Fires on the plain (Nobi) -- Replying to listeners -- Billy Budd -- Yojimbo -- Devi -- How the long distance runner throws the race -- 8 1/2: confessions of a movie director

Is there a cure for film criticism? or, some unhappy thoughts on Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of film: the redemption of physical reality -- Circles and squares -- Morality plays right and left

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